On Bernard's.. 'physical condition'..

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Lefty, He was on the Defensive when He had Joe over

[rjj tszyu]

Good thread. I think the only time Bernard has been clearly beaten was against Jones. All the rest I can make a case for him winning (even though I think that he just lost against Calzaghe) and he has never really taken many serious head shots or so it seems. But he has been around a long time and the other day I was watching Henry Cooper talking about Ali saying that his Parkinsons was actually caused by the way he used to ride the punches and kind of let them run behind his head and clip the back of his neck where there are a lot of nerves and so on. If this is true (and I am no doctor remember) then it seems that you don't have to be taking clean shots to get a serious illness from boxing.

He is 43 years old now and IMO has nothing left to prove in boxing. He is the longest reigning MW champ of all time, he moved upto LHW and took over there and last time out he probably run Joe Calzaghe the closest to being beat he has been in his career. For me it's time to retire or he will get hurt. The thing is Pavlik is the last person you want your defence to start failing against because with his power shots he can seriously hurt ANYBODY and sooner or later Hopkins' defence will fail. I just hope he gets through the fight with Pavlik OK but despite being something of an Hopkins fan I quite hope he loses then he might retire whereas if he wins I don't see it.

[Plopeater]

Hopkins has always been in good physical condition. Its just now the legs can't do what he wants them too